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Because Microsoft knows if it can sell the product to your manager, that's all that really matters

Individuals are relentlessly marketed to by targeted ads psychologically designed to get them to purchase disposable, useless slop, but sure let's just say it's their fault for falling for it.

I don't understand how this post isn't supposed to be political, or at least make reference to it/invite discussions of it. What are we all upset about, forming an army and going out there to "sort out"? Why are things bad to the point where, were this a movie, the superheroes arrive?

Because to me (and several others) the answer is clearly politics, the current political trends and movements.

We're not angry for no reason, but in fact for a series of very valid political reasons. I won't get into the specifics since it's against the rules, but I don't think it's very fair to make a post gesturing at the state of the world, in a way that says we should get involved, and then telling people they can't discuss what we'd actually do because the solutions are political. To insist otherwise feels to me like we'd be protesting just to protest with no actual goals.

Make sure you turn off the Internet box when you're not using it too! It fires out those microwave radiations faster than you can whatchamacallit

Karl D. Marx

idk if this counts but I just ruined my sleep schedule, pulling an all nighter only to crash in the late afternoon on Saturday to design a fucking Minecraft redstone farm. I knew what I was doing but eventually the hours just started sloughing away and I realized I was going a bit delirious and the mental static was surreal. There were like 2 songs playing in my head simultaneously, and if I really let the thoughts "decohere", I could get it up to 3-4 overlaying each other in a sort of weird mashup. I could also mentally pull up the second monitor content I'd been listening to over the past 12 hours, haphazardly bouncing around. A cacophony of unprocessed thoughts and earworms laying in bed staying awake for another hour and trying to wind down.

Went to bed hungry, been on my phone for hours after waking up and I need to get up but there are roadbumps keeping me from doing that. My stomach has that dull ache, the kind that arises after one's body has just kind of resigned to deal with the signals that indicate hunger. Unfortunately, I need to do my morning routine first which I don't have my clothes picked out for so it's just a straight mess right now. Not much was planned so it's not the biggest deal, but I do feel like I wasted the better part of a weekend in one of those extended hyperfocus hazes and resulting fallout. Airing my thoughts out here feels like a bad idea but it's helping me process what the hell I just put myself through.

At least the redstone farm is done and works pretty well, considering I made it from scratch to conform with very specific constraints

If you drop-in replace "x does not consent" with "x is being exploited" (making necessary grammatical adjustments), I feel like I'm still basically saying the same thing with the same takeaways

Consent violation and exploitation are fairly intertwined concepts, but exploitation generally sells better as a term to highlight injustice. For that reason perhaps it would have been better to use that term instead, but I've already spent enough time on my writing half-baked analysis on a 20 second clip from regular show

As the core of veganism is consent, there are several elements to consider:

1. Consent of the substance's sentient source: The coffee bean seems more than willing to give this up... almost too willing. I don't think there's a direct issue here, but definitely warrants further consideration when other parties are involved.
2. Consent of the substance's consumers: neither Mordecai nor Rigby seem to want what's going on. While Rigby signed the contract, and could be held to its terms under ideal circumstances, it's a rather predatory situation since it's presented in a language he doesn't understand. Mordecai didn't sign anything, did not consent even on paper, and is a complete victim here.
3. While mostly related to point #2, contracts are often wielded as a tool of the powerful against the weak, and in an inequitable exchange ends up being little more than a justification to continue a coercive arrangement one party would back out of if given the choice.

So I'd say while the events depicted are not vegan, but the coffee itself as a substance is most likely vegan. It's a little hard to say for certain without more context tho, for instance if the bean is also coerced to act this way by outside forces.

They plan to collect it in the form of El Salvador concentration camp labor, compensated at like five cents an hour.

I dunno, when did you stop beating your wife?

In the article it seems they're equating the two and... want both forms banned.

When I say advertising, I also mean propaganda. Propaganda is advertising for the state, and advertising is propaganda for the private. Same thing.

Charge said countries a regular "user fee" for membership inside this new order.

Literally trying to implement big tech enshittification but with international trade policy... What could possibly go wrong??